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Nuns of Mother Teresa's order, the Missionaries of Charity, watch proceedings beside a portrait of her hanging from a balcony during celebrations to mark the centennial of Teresa's birth in Kolkata, India.

Sister Angelita from the Missionaries of Charity comforts a 4-month-old baby suffering from hydrocephalus, a condition causing an accumulation of fluid in the brain, at an orphanage in Old Dhaka, Bangladesh.

Street dwellers eat food at a Missionaries of Charity distribution center in Calcutta, India, on Wednesday. The organization was founded by the late Mother Teresa.

Catholic nuns from the Missionaries of Charity pray during the 11th anniversary of Mother Teresa's death in the western Indian city of Ahmedabad. Mother Teresa was a Nobel Peace Prize-winning nun who died in 1997, and was beatified by Pope John Paul II in 2003 at the Vatican.

A Catholic nun from the Missionaries of Charity lights candles during an evening prayer beside a picture of the late Mother Teresa in Agartala, India. The Nobel Peace Prize laureate, who died in 1997, would have turned 98 today.